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Al-Bashir has offered little in the way of concessions, beyond calling for a national dialogue and asking parliament to postpone constitutional amendments that would allow him to seek a new term in next year’s electionsHere's The Full Story…

“I announce here, from Kassala, that we are opening the border with Eritrea because they are our brothers and our people. Politics will not divide us,” Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.Here's The Full Story…

Two more demonstrators died in unrest that began last month and raged across Sudanese cities on Thursday in the most sustained challenge yet to the three-decade rule of Omar al-Bashir.Here's The Full Story…

“According to our information, representatives of Russian private security companies, who have nothing to do with Russian state bodies, really do operate in Sudan,” Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry.Here's The Full Story…

“Sudan is governed by the decision of the Sudanese citizen and his decision through the ballot box … after a year it will be the Sudanese people who decide,” said Sudanese Omar al-Bashir.Here's The Full Story…

Sudan has been rocked by more than a week of anti-government protests sparked by rising prices, shortages of basic commodities and a cash crisis. At least 19 people have died during the protests, including two military personnel, according to official figures.Here's The Full Story…

Syrian President Bashar Assad thanked Sudan’s president Omar al-Bashir for his visit, asserting that it will give strong momentum for restoring relations between the two countries “to the way it was before the war on Syria.”Here's The Full Story…

“We agreed to amend the articles after we collected 294 deputies’ signatures. The parties saw that President Omar al-Bashir is the protector of the people of Sudan in the coming period,” said party head Abdurrahman Mohamed Ali.Here's The Full Story…

The U.S. lifted 20-year-old trade sanctions on Sudan a year ago, but economists say foreign investors and banks are put off by Sudan’s continued designation by Washington as a state sponsor of terrorism, alongside Iran, North Korea and Syria. Here's The Full Story…

“Since the beginning of 2018 the Government of Sudan, through its security machinery, has been unrelenting in its crackdown on press freedom by attacking journalists and media organizations,” said Amnesty’s Sarah Jackson.Here's The Full Story…

South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar returned to the capital Juba for the first time in more than two years Wednesday for a ceremony to welcome the latest peace accord for the war-ravaged country. Machar, who under the terms of the September deal is to be reinstated as vice president, had not set foot in the city since he fled in July 2016 under a hail of gunfire when an earlier peace agreement collapsed.

Riek Machar was welcomed by President Salva Kiir, Machar’s former ally turned bitter enemy, on his arrival at Juba’s airport from Khartoum.Here's The Full Story…